Living with Earthquakes - Nepal
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- Created on: 10-03-22 11:52
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- Living with earthquakes - Nepal
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- Nepal earthquake prone (2 7-8 Mw every 40 years
- Records much less complete than places like Japan
- Tectonic Setting
- Situated in middle of collision zone where Inso-Australian plate meets Eurasian plate.
- Soft geology of Nepal makes it more vulnerable (soft sediment)
- Liquefaction is major problem
- Gorkha Earthquake
- 25 April 2015, 7.8Mw, slip along frontal thrust fault in collision zone
- Epicentre 90km NE Kathmandu
- Focus 15km
- 51 aftershocks of varying Mw
- Many landslides + snow/ice avalanches on Everest
- Social impacts
- 8800 fatalities, 22,000 injuries
- Everest avalanches killed 20
- 2.8 million displaced
- 473,000 houses destroyed or damaged
- 1 million people required food assistance
- Increase in trafficking of displaced girls
- Those lower caste people living on higher Himalayan slopes worst affected
- Women often discriminated against in distribution of aid
- Culturally important locations damaged (one of most important buddhist monuments)
- Economic impacts
- $10 billion cost to national economy
- Tourism damaged (accounts 10% of economy)
- Asian Development Bank donated $200 million
- Gov and individual debt increased
- Food security massively affected
- Political impacts
- Undermined efforts towards peace and democracy
- Received long term aid from many countries -> created tension with countries like India.
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